North Korea: Sony hacking charges could hurt ongoing talks with U.S.

North Korea on Friday said talks between the United States and Pyongyang could be under threat after U.S. federal prosecutors accused a computer programmer allegedly involved in the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack with working for the North Korean government.

“The U.S. should seriously ponder over the negative consequences of circulating falsehoods and inciting antagonism against the DPRK that may affect the implementation of the joint statement adopted at the DPRK-U.S. summit,” Han Yong Song, a researcher at the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s Institute for American Studies, said in a statement, according to The Associated Press.

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He added that the cyberattacks have "nothing to do with" North Korea.

The Justice Department last week charged Park Jin Hyok for allegedly conspiring to conduct a series of attacks, in addition to stealing $81 million from a bank in Bangladesh.